The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, 1760 |
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Page ix
... hands of one of the Saville family ; if the report be true , it is to be hoped that the poffeffor will be public - fpirited enough to com- municate fuch a treasure to the world , as , from the specimens we have by us , we are perfuaded ...
... hands of one of the Saville family ; if the report be true , it is to be hoped that the poffeffor will be public - fpirited enough to com- municate fuch a treasure to the world , as , from the specimens we have by us , we are perfuaded ...
Page x
... hand in it , and permitted his name to be inferted in the title - page in his own life- time . We have been very exact in arranging the epiftles according to chronological order , which was never done before , and have retained that to ...
... hand in it , and permitted his name to be inferted in the title - page in his own life- time . We have been very exact in arranging the epiftles according to chronological order , which was never done before , and have retained that to ...
Page xiv
... hands of his learned preceptor . In 1650 he was elected thence a fcholar of Trinity - college , Cambridge . His heroic stanzas on the death of the Lord Protector , appeared in 1658 ; and on the restoration he published a poem called ...
... hands of his learned preceptor . In 1650 he was elected thence a fcholar of Trinity - college , Cambridge . His heroic stanzas on the death of the Lord Protector , appeared in 1658 ; and on the restoration he published a poem called ...
Page xx
... hand in adjusting the contrivance of it . The State of Innocence , or the Fall of Man , an opera , taken from ... hands allowed to be his beft : he has ftrictly regarded the unities of time , place , and action ; and has attempt- ed ...
... hand in adjusting the contrivance of it . The State of Innocence , or the Fall of Man , an opera , taken from ... hands allowed to be his beft : he has ftrictly regarded the unities of time , place , and action ; and has attempt- ed ...
Page xxi
... hand- led the fame ftory . Two other of his plays appeared in the fame year , viz . Secret Love , or the Maiden Queen ; and Troi- lus and Creffida , or ' Truth found too late . The lat- ter is an alteration from Shakespear , to whofe me ...
... hand- led the fame ftory . Two other of his plays appeared in the fame year , viz . Secret Love , or the Maiden Queen ; and Troi- lus and Creffida , or ' Truth found too late . The lat- ter is an alteration from Shakespear , to whofe me ...
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